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ECOTOXr v1.0.9 (Release date: 2024-01-07)

• switched from the ‘magrittr’ pipe operator (‘%>%’) to R’s native pipe operator (‘|>’)
• switched from ‘httr’ to ‘httr2’ dependency
• Added functions to check the local build and its version
• Fix in database build routine
• Fix in manual to pass CRAN checks
• Explicit mentioning of required versions of dependencies

ECOTOXr v1.0.5 (Release date: 2023-10-09)

• Added verify_ssl argument to on-line functions in order to make it easier to try and avert failing certificate checks.

• Minor fix in CAS handlers

ECOTOXr v1.0.3 (Release date: 2023-08-21)

• Adjustments to pass latest CRAN checks

ECOTOXr v1.0.2 (Release date: 2023-06-18)

• Fixes for 2023 June release of the database:

  • Handling of new fields and tables introduced in the new release.

  • Better handler unintended line-feed characters in source material, when building SQLite file.

  • When table primary key is not unique, update table with latest occurrence of the key. This is also reported to EPA.

• Keeping track of missing tables and fields, and occurrence of unexpected fields while building. These are added to the build log file.

ECOTOXr v1.0.1 (Release date: 2023-01-01)

• Experimental features for on-line searching of ECOTOX and CompTox

• Switched to roxygen2md for documentation and markdown format for NEWS

• Added life-cycle badges

• Some minor fixes in the SQLite building routine after the December 2022 release of ECOTOX

ECOTOXr v0.2.0 (Release date: 2022-11-17)

• Major changes:

  • Modified searching routines to make advantage of the sql parser and optimisers implemented in the package ‘dplyr’. Performance (i.e. speed) of the search routines have improved considerably.
  • Added support for handling Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers.

• Several minor adjustments and corrections to code and manual. These include fixes to address notes from CRAN checks.

ECOTOXr v0.1.1 (Release date: 2021-10-04)

• Updates to DESCRIPTION file and manual in order to comply with CRAN policies.

• Function progress reports are now shown with ‘message’ instead of ‘cat’, such that they can be suppressed.

ECOTOXr v0.1.0 (Release date: 2021-10-03)

• Initial release which can:

  • Download raw ECOTOX database tables from the EPA website
  • Build an SQLite database from those files
  • Search and extract data from the created local database

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.